There Will Come Soft Rains
by Ray Bradburyliterary work· published 1950
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm. The title is from a 1918 poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale that was published during World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. The story was first published in 1950 in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in Collier's magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles. The author regarded it as "the one story that represents the essence of Ray Bradbury".
Adaptations (2)
There Will Come Soft Rains has been adapted into 2 films (1984).
There Will Come Soft Rains1984 · film · 10 min · dir. Nazim Tulyahodzhayev · IMDb ↗IMDb7.4In this animated short based on a short story from Ray Bradbury, the viewer observes a computer-controlled house in the near future and learns of the fates of its occupants.
